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Volume 1 (1837) includes added illustrated title page and plates numbered 1-45; v. 2 (1838) includes plates numbered 46-90; v. 3 (1840) includes plates numbered 91-137

Hand-colored lithographed plates with blank guard-sheets

"London: Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars"--Verso of t.p

Plates illustrated by R. Mills, A. & W. Green, Miss Green, Miss Clowes, F. Cameron, H.N. Humphreys, and Mrs. Withers; engraved by J. Graf; printed by Day & Haghe

citation/reference: Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, 2229

citation/reference: Stafleu & Cowan. Taxonomic lit. (2nd ed.), 3771

citation/reference: Atwood, A.C. Catalogue of the botanical library of John Donnell Smith, p. 29

citation/reference: Dunthorne, G. Flower & fruit prints of the 18th and early 19th centuries, 173

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Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration

Stafleu & Cowan. Taxonomic lit. (2nd ed.)

Atwood, A.C. Catalogue of the botanical library of John Donnell Smith

Dunthorne, G. Flower & fruit prints of the 18th and early 19th centuries

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SCNHRB copy (v. 1, 39088017263203; v. 2, 39088017263245; v. 3, 39088017263286) was complete with added title page and all numbered plates at time of recataloging (March 2014)

SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Ex libris quos Institutioni Smithsonianae anno MCMV donavit John Donnell Smith; another bookplate (details not visible) is pasted under the Smith bookplate

SCNHRB copy has stamp on t.p.'s: Smithsonian Institution Special Collections; Sep. 13, 1929. Autograph of a former owner on t.p. of v. 1: W. Henry Baxter[?]

SCNHRB copy has later gilt-tooled green half-leather binding with green embossed cloth-covered boards; raised bands; marbled endpapers; and all edges gilt. Some of the margins are closely cropped

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